I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.